St. Engelbert (St. Ingbert)
The St. Engelbert Church is a baroque Catholic church in St. Ingbert and belongs to the parish of Heiliger Ingobertus. Until the construction of the Church of St. Josef in the 1890s, the Engelbertskirche was the parish church of St. Ingbert.
history
The parish of St. Ingbert was first mentioned in 1264. During the Thirty Years' War , the St. Ingbert parish church, which was presumably located at the " Old Cemetery ", was destroyed. In 1661 the noble family von der Leyen took control of St. Ingbert. In the middle of the 18th century a new church was built for the growing community. Imperial Count Friedrich Ferdinand von der Leyen (* 1709; † 1760) was the builder, his wife Countess Maria Charlotte Auguste von Hatzfeldt (* 1715; † 1774) builder of the new parish church of St. Engelbert, which was completed in 1755. It was created according to plans by the builder Friedrich Joachim Stengel . After completion, the church initially wanted to be named after the patron saint of the village, which had 500 inhabitants at the time, " St. Ingobertus ", but the saint was not in the official list of saints because even at that time the existence of a holy Ingobertus could not be considered certain . Ultimately, a compromise was reached and the name of St. Engelbert listed in the directory was chosen .
In the early 1990s, the church was renovated . The building was given a new coat of paint and a new floor. The wood in the chancel was marbled. The confessionals were also marbled.
Building description
The baroque church building consists of the nave with four arched windows on each of the two longitudinal walls. In the choir , which follows the full width of the nave, there are two more windows. In the middle part of the choir there is an oval window .
Church interior
The interior of St. Engelbert is a wide, high hall with a flat ceiling. It is separated from the chancel, which is equally high and wide, by a step. In the western part of the interior is the entrance portal , above it the gallery , which takes up the entire width of the nave and rests on six columns .
Get to equipment from the time of its construction, the pews , the confessionals , with ornate carvings provided pulpit and the altar cross in the center of the neo-baroque altar conditioning of the 1,952th
Exterior construction
The outside facade of the church is simply designed. On the tower , which has a square floor plan , sits a polygonal onion with an open lantern and a Welschen hood with a weather cross . The tower is attached to the roof in the western part of the church as a ridge turret.
The gable permanent West facade of St. Engelbert, is also the main entrance is in the, has the pediment within the roof slopes two oval windows and with gold Roman numerals and hands equipped pm . A third oval window sits directly above the main portal. On both sides of the facade there are corner pilasters that continue on the nave facades .
The main portal of the church consists of a two-door entrance gate with a curved curve and a skylight above . The doors are hung in a round arch portal . The overall layout of the portal also includes pilasters in the form of vertical wall projections with vegetable capitals , above which a cranked cornice on which a tympanum sits. Inside there is a cartouche with garlands, a crown and animal figures that hold the coats of arms of von der Leyen (left) and von Hatzfeld (right).
organ
The St. Engelbert organ with 23 registers was created by Gustav Schlimbach ( Speyer ) in 1874 and is one of the best-preserved works by this organ builder . In the course of the church renovation in the early 1990s, the organ was also renovated by Hugo Mayer ( Heusweiler ). The instrument is set up on the gallery and has a free-standing console . The wind chests are mechanical cone chests.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : Colectiv IM (six registers), Colectiv IM (full work), Colectiv II.M (full work) (as steps)
Special features: pitch a 1 = 434 Hz . The instrument is one of the most important historical organs in Saarland .
Bells
In 1954, the Saarlouis bell foundry in Saarlouis-Fraulautern, which was founded by Karl (III) Otto from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen and Aloys Riewer from Saarland, cast for five St. Ingbert churches, including St. Engelbert -Church, bronze bells. The St. Engelbert Church received three bells with a series of strikes: g sharp ′ - h ′ - g sharp ′ ′. The bells have the following diameters: 970 mm, 809 mm, 722 mm and weigh: 578 kg, 330 kg, 230 kg.
Web links
- St. Engelbert info page on the website of the parish Heiliger Ingobertus
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j St. Engelbert info page on the website of the parish of St. Joseph , accessed on June 6, 2012
- ↑ History of St. Ingbert - 10th to 19th centuries ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Information on the website of the city of St. Ingbert, accessed on June 6, 2012
- ↑ a b Organ of the Church of St. Engelbert (Catholic) ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Info page of the Orgeln im Saarland website , accessed on June 6, 2012
- ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 87 to 96, 566 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular pp. 105 to 112, 517 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
Coordinates: 49 ° 16 ′ 45 ″ N , 7 ° 7 ′ 1.2 ″ E